“We share poems in safe spaces and you think you have rights to our stories.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Liv McKee, The Bee, Sierra DeMulder, and Darius Simpson! Congrats Poets!
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Performed their poem “Confinement”
“Belugas are captured because they are expressive, and they die less often than other whales in confinement.”
Don’t miss this poem from Catherine Weiss, performing their poem “Confinement”
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Performed at The Town Hall in New York, NY
“We’re not equal, we’re not united, if anything, I think we’re divided.”
Don’t miss this poem from Gladys Holman, performing at The Town Hall in New York, NY
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Performed in Longmont, CO
“Walking through the cemetery in my hometown, fixing the flowers on a stranger’s grave.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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Performed at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX
“We share poems in safe spaces and you think you have rights to our stories.”
Don’t miss this poem from Liv McKee, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX
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Performed at the Albany Barn in Albany, NY
“You will tell everyone you are jealous. You will lie and say of her.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at the Albany Barn in Albany, NY
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““Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco,Cameron Dada, Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre, and Sam Sax! Congrats Poets!
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While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Matt Mason!
Performed at the Button Studio
“Rebellion is the most natural form of self-defense”
Don’t miss this poem from Darius Simpson, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at The Town Hall in New York, NY
“Existing black cannot be described as a box. There are no limits to what we can do. There are no limits to who we can become.”
Don’t miss this poem from Cameron Dada, performing at The Town Hall in New York, NY
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Performed
“We are blurry silhouettes against the backdrop of everything popular, often wearing our skin like a costume of someone we didn’t feel comfortable pretending to be anyways.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing
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